Making art in the studio, listening to music or NPR and thinking, all the time thinking. It could be about red versus orange or politics or the world collapsing around us or growing old or (most probably) wondering what to have for dinner.

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Phillip Guston has been one of my favorite artists for many years. I was first attracted to his expressionist paintings only. I love both now and his later work perhaps even more. However, the red/pink painting of his you just posted reminds me of just how much I love looking at his expressionist paintings. Thanks for posting.

Deborah, I wish I was seeing it with you. I will get there before this year is over - I hope.

And Lisa, it sounds like you made it there already. You're fortunate to be familiar with it all already.

Lynette, we have to get down there. When does MoMA ever show all this work from their own fabulous collection together. We're lucky that they are just trying to put a good show together without paying for loans from elsewhere.

How are we looking at the paintings of Mark Rothko these days? Is he old hat, replaced in America by more contemporary concerns? Looking at his minimal canvases and their enticing floating squares of subdued paint live at the MOMA recently, I had to stop to wonder whether he still communicates to a modern and younger audience.Wahooart, the site that sells good canvas prints to order from their database of digital images, has many Rothko prints. I ordered this one, Blue and Grey, that I have now hanging in my study. I can spend a long time looking at this elusive image that takes me to some other place not in this world.

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I'm always reading something and now it's another one of Robert Caro's volumes of Lyndon Johnson's biography. "Passage of Power" is the fourth volume in this monumental series and covers the years 1958 to 1964. This period of Johnson's life was full of extremes of power - from the peak as Majority Leader of the Senate, then fading as he failed to actively campaign for the presidential nomination in 1960. Once he joined Kennedy on the 1960 Democratic ticket, his southern connections gave Kennedy the win, but Johnson sank into powerless oblivion and became the butt of jokes by "the Harvards." On Kennedy's death, Johnson ascended to the presidency and experienced another series of extremes of political power.

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